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MS504 A collection of medical receipts

Publication date: 1702

Topics: Medical recipes, Medical receipts, History of medicine, Seventeenth century medicine, Eighteenth century medicine, Domestic medicine

Collection: opensource; rcplondonmanuscripts; rcplondon; ukmhl; europeanlibraries

Language: english-handwritten

Item Size: 101.1M

Handwritten recipe book from the collections of the Royal

College of Physicians.

In late 17th c. hand. With notes on the medicinal virtues of ox-gall, the prickles of hedge-hogs, the skins of mice, the blood of weasels, etc At the end are six pages of notes from "The Gibson, M.D. his book of Anatomy" written about 1700-1704. (Thomas Gibson M.D. published his "Anatomy of Human Bodies Epitomized" in 1682.) Index at end Index References: Prescriptions Gibson (Thomas), 1647-1722

Link to Royal College of Physicians catalogue